Grape growers in the Rogue River Valley, Oregon, are delighted because they have discovered that the peculiar red soil of that country will produce the Flame Tokay grape to perfection. One grower set out 100,000 Tokay slips this spring.
"Nubbins of Farm News," Weekly Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 5, 1908, page 30


    Thurston Daniels, ex-Lieutenant Governor of the State of Washington, formerly of Vancouver, now of Spokane, is in Portland. He has just returned from a visit to Denver, where he attended the National Democratic Convention as a spectator. He visited Colorado Springs, the Cripple Creek district, Salt Lake City and San Francisco in his trip and also stopped off at Medford to visit his son Thurston Daniels, Jr., on his way to Portland. Mr. Daniels has large realty holdings in Spokane.
"Personal Mention," Morning Oregonian, Portland, August 6, 1908, page 7




    Medford, Ore., Aug. 21.--A syndicate of local and eastern capitalists, headed by John D. Olwell of this city, has purchased the famous pear orchard of C. H. Lewis, near Medford, for $160,000. This orchard holds the world's record for the highest price ever paid for a carload of Comice pears, $6,800.
The Chicago Packer, August 22, 1908, page 6


    Mr. T. H. B. Taylor is down from Jackson County, Oregon, with his Steam Feather Renovating plant for the treating of feather beds and pillows. The feathers are called for in the morning, taken just as they are in the ticks and during the day are thoroughly washed with steam and dried by steam, perfectly sterilized and deodorized and returned the same evening all sewed up ready for immediate use. Each family's work treated entirely separate. New ticking put on when required. Beds converted into pillows or vice versa. Beds or pillows sized up or changed to any size or shape desired.
    Mr. Taylor has been a resident of Jackson County for thirty years and the Medford Mail, the official newspaper of Jackson County, says anything Mr. Taylor does is a guarantee. As this is strictly a sanitary matter people are quick to see the necessity of it. The feathers are made as pure as snow.
Del Norte Record, Crescent City, August 22, 1908, page 3


    "The Land of Opportunity" is the title of a series of Western sketches now running in Harper's Weekly. In the last issue the article is illustrated with a series of well-known Southern Oregon fruit pictures. The captions over which they appear in Harper's are "The Grapes of the Roque Rim Valley" and "Picking Pears in the Roque River Valley of Southern Oregon." When a great paper like Harper's Weekly displays such an indifference to accuracy, it is small wonder that so many of the Eastern people are so densely ignorant about the geography of the West. Ignorance or carelessness as displayed in the captions would indicate that the East was also a "land of opportunity"--for education of some of the news writers.
Morning Oregonian, Portland, September 16, 1908, page 8


    H. M. Coss, who was found guilty a few weeks ago of a statutory crime upon the person of Carrie Stagg, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Hanna to serve seven years in the penitentiary, and he was at once committed to the county jail.
    Coss' attorneys, W. M. Colvig and C. L. Reames, left last night for Salem, where they will apply to the Supreme Court for a certificate of probable cause in the Coss matter, which appeal was denied them by Judge Hanna. Should the certificate be granted it will have the effect of releasing Coss upon his present bond until such time as the case on appeal may be heard by the Supreme Court.
Medford Mail, October 23, 1908, page 4




    Yesterday there came in from the agency in Klamath County five four-horse teams and one single team driven and owned by Indians from the reservation. These people are after supplies for their families' uses during the winter. A few years since it was no uncommon thing for these people to come here to trade, and their coming now simply shows that the reputation of our merchants' fair dealing has not depreciated with time.
Medford Mail, October 29, 1908, page 2


    MEDFORD, Or., Nov. 12.--(Special.)--A land deal of considerable moment has been closed here by which Honore Palmer, son of the late Chicago millionaire, becomes owner of 1300 acres of land. This body of land is of the most productive in the county and lies on both sides of the Rogue River, 12 miles north of Medford. This particular section along the Rogue River is the finest fishing grounds on the coast and well known to many famous fishermen from abroad.
    The price paid for the land is $37,000 cash. Mr. Palmer expects to divide the land into five- and ten-acre tracts and place them on the market. Besides this investment, which he made on his recent trip here, he also bought copper mining property located near the well-known Blue Ledge Mine, about 30 miles southwest of Medford.
     Following the sale to Honore Palmer comes another one of interest [illegible] Cannon, C. W. Perkins and B. Gilman of San Francisco, and T. W. [illegible] of Fresno, Cal. purchased Dr. E. B. Pickel's ranch, known as the "401" ranch, and containing 561 acres, 235 acres planted to commercial varieties of apples 1 to 4 years old, and 100 acres ready for planting. The balance is planted to pears. While the exact price has not yet been made public, it is known to be over $100,000.
Morning Oregonian, Portland, November 13, 1908, page 9


    Some valuable Oregon property near Medford was recently purchased by Honore Palmer, of Chicago. Mr. Palmer, it will be remembered, bought considerable Oregon land last year, and for a time resided in Eugene, Or., with his distinguished mother, Mrs. Potter Palmer. Apropos of Mrs. Palmer, she gave this past month a brilliant dinner in London, complimentary to King Edward. Having heard the King express a desire to hear the famous American artiste, Madame Fremstad, sing, Mrs. Palmer negotiated with the singer, who came over from Paris to England expressly for the event.
"Society," Sunday Oregonian, Portland, November 22, 1908, page 26